Example sentences of "[adv] prevent [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Year after year the crisis never climaxed , perhaps prevented from doing so by the Committee 's success in improving the course and keeping the existing members together . |
| 2 | For the moment these parties are not officially banned , merely prevented from carrying out any political activity . |
| 3 | Barclays bought Martins , and was only prevented from merging with Lloyds by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 4 | The above mentioned insiders , that is , individuals connected with a company , individuals contemplating making a take-over , and tippee traders , are not only prevented from dealing in the relevant securities , but are also subject to two further constraints : first , counselling or procuring any other person to deal ; and secondly , communicating inside information to any other person . |
| 5 | They were only prevented from boarding the plane when the aircraft 's captain refused them permission . |
| 6 | In Oviedo an infuriated mob was only prevented from lynching the distinguished poet Meléndez Valdés by the appearance of priests with the exposed host . |
| 7 | But Cardiff continued to threaten , Hill being tackled into the corner flag after good work by Hall and Wintle , who shortly afterwards was released by Moore on the short side and was only prevented from scoring by Stephens 's fine cover tackle . |
| 8 | But Cardiff continued to threaten , Hill being tackled into the corner flag after good work by Hall and Wintle , who shortly afterwards was released by Moore on the short side and was only prevented from scoring by Stephens 's fine cover tackle . |
| 9 | Ted was signed for the Palace by Manager Jack Tresadern from Preston in the summer of 1934 and had a magnificent first season , only prevented from making full appearances by an injury sustained in our Christmas Day fixture at Torquay . |
| 10 | In the end , West Germany , constitutionally prevented from deploying its forces outside Europe , agreed to provide additional naval cover in the West European arena as a replacement for the British and French ships sent to patrol in the Persian Gulf . |
| 11 | The recovery of consequential loss is illustrated by Bodley v. Reynolds , where a carpenter 's tools were converted and he was thereby prevented from working . |
| 12 | When Geoffrey of Brittany was buried it was said that Philip had been forcibly prevented from throwing himself into the grave to join his friend . |
| 13 | electricity board owed a duty of care to an intelligent teenage boy to ensure that he was effectively prevented from climbing up a pole-mounted , high voltage electrical installation . |
| 14 | But a further extension of welfare citizenship is required , and a reform of the pension law is required so that workers are not prevented from entering the scheme on grounds of the numbers of hours worked . |
| 15 | A court will also give greater importance to ensuring employees are not prevented from earning a living . |
| 16 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |
| 17 | Although the Master was not allowed any wages or salary for his teaching beyond the £10 specified in the bequest , he was not prevented from taking other paid duties to supplement his income , perhaps for example serving a local family in its chapel . |
| 18 | Many of them fled to neighbouring parishes where the manorial structure was far weaker and poor immigrants were not prevented from setting up home . |
| 19 | As long as the public is not prevented from choosing one thing in preference to another , people will express their choice by what they are prepared to pay for the one compared with the other . |
| 20 | Butler-Sloss LJ said that the meaning of the words " trade secrets " had developed since Herbert Morris v Saxelby and was now interpreted in the wider context of " highly confidential information of a non-technical or non-scientific nature … " . 1.4 The employee 's skill and knowledge Although the courts are anxious to uphold the employer 's right to have his business secrets protected they have ensured that the employee is not prevented from using , once he has left his employer , the general skill and knowledge which he has acquired during employment even though this may have been acquired at some cost to the employer . |
| 21 | The scheme aims to cover the cost of health charges so that the poorer sections of the community are not prevented from receiving health care by the cost . |
| 22 | If she is not prevented from chattering she could cause herself much trouble . ’ |
| 23 | In this sense the members are not prevented from changing the scope of authority of the executive staff , but to do this they would be acting collectively qua ITC not as individual members . |
| 24 | This will significantly change the draft guidelines issued last September which stated that children intending to abscond from residential care should be physically prevented from leaving only if they were in ‘ immediate danger ’ . |
| 25 | It will no doubt investigate what was the substantial cause of the employee 's failure to comply with the statutory time limit ; whether he had been physically prevented from complying with the limitation period , for instance by illness or a postal strike , or something similar . |
| 26 | If just one or two Germans among that 50 per cent see it , and are thus prevented from forgetting the past , it may be worthwhile . |
| 27 | The water enters the stack from the bottom of the cavity , merging with the WC discharge which is thus prevented from coming into contact with the smaller diameter bath waste entry . |
| 28 | During his third lecture the crowd outside the house was scarcely prevented from attacking it to get at the ‘ damn 'd Jacobine ’ inside . |
| 29 | ‘ But these forms of damage are usually seasoned and localised , and are easily prevented by excluding the badgers with an electric fence … however the cost of the control often exceeds the losses incurred . ’ |
| 30 | Nobody likes a child who is allowed to do whatever she likes , but then again no child is happy if she is always prevented from exploring . |